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Has Anyone Moved From Nvidia To Amd And Not Regretted It

InHuman said:
I've just this evening ordered a 4070 ti super after being with AMD for years due to constant crashing in world of Warcraft that I have spent too long trying to fix that seriously annoyed me the other night because it crashed at the worst possible time!
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When I had a Vega 56 WoW classic used to crash randomly. It was AMDs recording software that was causing it, worth a try.
 
InHuman said:
I've just this evening ordered a 4070 ti super after being with AMD for years due to constant crashing in world of Warcraft that I have spent too long trying to fix that seriously annoyed me the other night because it crashed at the worst possible time!
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How did you come to the conclussion that it was the GPUs fault? I'm asking cause I'm curious. I played WoW for like 2 months between August and September before i got to bored and never had a crash on Windows or Linux. Sessions could easily be north of 4-5 hours when life permitted. Maybe I got lucky, which is funny, cause I'm always lucky then ;) In any case, I hope your issue gets resolved, nothing more annoying that constant interruptions when dug into a game.
 
When it crashes it comes up with a AMD driver timeout message, sometimes I can close the message and the game is still playable, other times the game is unplayable until I restart. Strange thing is my brother has the exact same pc setup and doesn't have any issues.
 
Moved from an RTX 2070S to the 7900XTX and haven't missed anything about the old Nvidia card to be honest!

I'm not as bothered by RT / Frame Gen etc anyway so the pure horsepower of the XTX has been fine for me!

They're good value for money too in my eyes compared to the insane asking prices for a 4090 and the 24gb vram is handy too!
 
Been using the 7900 xt Asus Tuf OC for a week now albeit only a few days gaming and can honestly say performance is great.
Had a few issues with drivers/adrenalin at first but worked them out now, when gaming I do not even see any difference apart from the extra FPS which I was after
up to now I am very happy thanks for all the advice and info in helping me.
 
Moved back and forwards a few times and never regretted it once. Have AMD cards at the moment. Next upgrade will probably be back to Nvidia with a 4070 or similar, may take a while though as too expensive for me at the moment.
 
roachyuk said:
I have been on Nvidia since well basically since they come out, but noticing the 7900xt and 7900xtx getting great reviews.
So fancy a change as either of them cards are great by looking at the reviews so was wondering if anyone has made the change
and if so was it worth it or did you change back thanks.
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Yeah absolutely no regrets in flipping sides and not funding Jensen's midlife crisis leather jackets any more. But the biggest surprise to me was the drivers and software. The drivers are no worse than Nvidia's regardless to what a lot of people like to preach and the adrenaline software is heaps nicer to use than gforce experience
 
The 7900XTX (looking at above comments the XT too) is definitely a beast and is worth it, especially at today's prices. My 7900XTX went down to £900 with game bundles from 1100 when I bought it. Price-wise completely incomparable to Nvidia's offerings. I have been only having Nvidia cards for a very long time and really appreciate the GUI and all-in-one features/settings of Adrenaline without permanently using multiple different and loose tools for the same. My best impression by far is how a driver timeout/crash almost never leads to BSOD or black screen, but just resetting to default settings and a Windows screen, stable. Unlike that I've been having so many hard resets/shutdowns with Nvidia, or even my mouse disappearing while the rest looking normal (until restart). Be wary however with updating drivers (if current ones work perfectly for you anyway) as it looks like these may be more optimised for newer CPUs and generally motherboards/BIOS versions (some people report excessive stuttering in certain games and in general starting from June/July). All in all, I couldn't be happier with the performance-to-price ratio and considering the current state of the market and especially prices, I see no alternative in 4090 and 5080/5090 as neither of these will be able to truly reach the performance of a UHD/4K display at full 144+FPS with full RT without gimmicks like frame generation, upscaling, AI and similar. I want games as game developers and creators made them to look, not like the AI or pixel-and colour-approximation technologies think they must look. And once again, for the price of a £2000-2200 of a card of no matter what calibre it better be my car, washing machine, dishwasher, fridge and DJI drone altogether.
 
BRIGGBOY81 said:
Yeah absolutely no regrets in flipping sides and not funding Jensen's midlife crisis leather jackets any more. But the biggest surprise to me was the drivers and software. The drivers are no worse than Nvidia's regardless to what a lot of people like to preach and the adrenaline software is heaps nicer to use than gforce experience
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Exactly at the moment with the new windows 11 update when my mate PC comes on screens flick on and off for a few seconds and when he closes the game down the same happens, Nvidia and Microsoft can not work out whose problem it is .
 
InHuman said:
It just talks about a driver timeout, it's quite a common issue that I even had with my 5700xt and still had with the 7800xt. Annoyingly it stopped happening for a couple of weeks and now has decided to happen every 30 mins or so.
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Your problem is elsewhere im afraid. Windows can be finicky at times. Now I'm sure you been through a lot of troubleshooting steps so I will refrain from listing the usual spiel. But to give you an idea of what you potentially could be up against, I've seen this behaviour myself under different scenarios. Once I had to reinstall windows 11 3 times for it to work as intended, we are talking straight format -> install Win -> install drivers --> install steam --> conclude there is something wrong. I sanity checked with a windows 10 install after the second attempt and that worked as it should. I've also experienced the bios on my gigabyte b450 and b550 board go wonky after 4-6 months causing instability where a simply reflash even of the same bios revision and same settings afterwards would fix the issues. That is not to say that AMD doesn't release drivers with instability bugs in them, there has been a few over the years but I most often find the drivers not to be the main culprit. Now my experience is based on the AM4 socket and maybe there are differences with other platforms, that I do not know but I find it highly unlikely. To be frank, I'm so tired of what Windows has become that I'm off it for linux instead where performance and stability has been stellar unless I dabbled in some kernel modifications :P.
 
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BRIGGBOY81 said:
Yeah absolutely no regrets in flipping sides and not funding Jensen's midlife crisis leather jackets any more. But the biggest surprise to me was the drivers and software. The drivers are no worse than Nvidia's regardless to what a lot of people like to preach and the adrenaline software is heaps nicer to use than gforce experience
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The drivers thing is obviously a personal preference thing. I don't think the Adrenaline software is heaps nicer than the Nvidia drivers (I've never used GeForce Experience).
I don't think the Nvidia drivers are great either but I don't like the AMD driver suite.
I hate the look/style and layout of the AMD drivers. I hate that it bloated with things I don't need, like the monitoring stuff. I prefer to use 3rd party apps to monitor all that stuff. As I switch between vendors it means I can keep that stuff consistent.

I'm also not looking forward to the new Nvidia App, I've not used it but get the feeling it could be going the same way as the AMD suite.
I guess the good thing is you don't generally have to spend much time in the drivers.

The downloads for drivers these days is huge and they just seem to keep increasing. So much in both sets that a lot of us probably don't use.
 
InHuman said:
When it crashes it comes up with a AMD driver timeout message, sometimes I can close the message and the game is still playable, other times the game is unplayable until I restart. Strange thing is my brother has the exact same pc setup and doesn't have any issues.
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Driver timeout is just a symptom, not the cause. I'd check your whole computer with variable load diagnostics (like occt has amongst its tests), as Intel CPU issues shown that one could run 24/7 static high load without issues but CPU was unstable on variable load very quickly - resulting in things like GPU driver crashes and other symptoms. I've had ram losing stability and CPU in the past on variable loads (from both camps), often resulting in driver crashes where GPU was innocent. Then again, I had GPU issues as well, so one just has to test everything carefully to be sure, preferably by swapping GPU for test too (same camp I would do to keep test consistent).
 
Tinek said:
Driver timeout is just a symptom, not the cause. I'd check your whole computer with variable load diagnostics (like occt has amongst its tests), as Intel CPU issues shown that one could run 24/7 static high load without issues but CPU was unstable on variable load very quickly - resulting in things like GPU driver crashes and other symptoms. I've had ram losing stability and CPU in the past on variable loads (from both camps), often resulting in driver crashes where GPU was innocent. Then again, I had GPU issues as well, so one just has to test everything carefully to be sure, preferably by swapping GPU for test too (same camp I would do to keep test consistent).
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To be fair if this doesn't fix it I'll know the most likely cause will be the ram as I've changed almost all the parts except that since this issue started.

Back on topic I would say that currently you get get some cracking deals on the 7800xt which is a very good performing card! You can have issues with any hardware and when buying anything you should buy the best part for the money you are spending.
 
@AMD_Vik These drivers have the same browser lag and stability issues as the previous ones on the 780m, back I go.

https://www.amd.com/en/resources/support-articles/release-notes/RN-RAD-WIN-24-10-1.html
Thread on reddit with similar issues. Rolling back to 24.8.1 fixes any issues, surely AMD can figure it out.

For me, 24.9.1 was causing issues with video encoding or hardware acceleration or something. I use OBS to capture clips when playing games and the clips captured after updating were weird... They were noticeably larger in size and when I used the seek feature of VLC, the video lagged and showed artifacts. This didn't use to happen before the update and all my older clips are fine. Literally the last clip I captured before the update was completely fine. I use H.264 encoding btw.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/AMDHelp/comments/1fumdu5/adrenalin_2491_w11_24h2_doesnt_work/
 
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